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a walk a day along Oxford Street

A poem by JESSICA YOUNG.

 

hiding between your shoulder and left cheek,
only the lonely neon lights
now peer at our embrace
as our bodies become one
on these soulless streets.

 

do you remember that time
when affection was displayed sideways
under a single shared sheet?

Image courtesy of Jessica Young.

now we pretend like little children
in red and yellow play pens,
that this coat is no coat
but a blanket under which we may sleep
and your collar no collar
but a pillow upon which we may dream

 

of a time when our love lived everywhere

 

everywhere other than in the silence of these streets.

Image courtesy of Jessica Young.

 

Featured image courtesy of Jessica Young.